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18 december 2004
That
morning's complete broadcast:
The
middle of the show:
- live from Cochabamba, Bolivia, the Democracy Center's
(http://democracyctr.org/)
Jim Shultz got us caught up on the ongoing struggle
against privatization there. The week of this interview,
the Center launched an e-campaign in support of Bechtel
dropping their $25 million lawsuit against the people of
Bolivia. You can still sign on to the campaign's petition
by visiting their site.
The
rest of the show:
11 december 2004
That
morning's complete broadcast:
- live from Romania, we talked with John Laughland.
Mr. Laughland's work has appeared in The Guardian and the
Spectator and his most recent reporting at the time of this
interview was centered on the Ukrainian election. John is
a trustee of the British Helsinki Human Rights Group (http://www.oscewatch.org)
and an associate of Sanders Research Associates (http://www.sandersresearch.com).
The
middle of the show:
The
rest of the show:
- author, editor, lecturer and social commentator R.U.
Sirius (http://www.revolting.com/),
a.k.a. Ken Goffman, author of "Counter Culture Through
The Ages: From Abraham to Acid House" (Villard
Books). RU was a semi-regular fixture on the show during
This is Hell's infancy. RU has long hair and knew Timothy
Leary.
4 december 2004
That
morning's complete broadcast:
- Clayton Swisher, a former State Department Security
officer and investigator who worked with the late Yasser
Arafat at Camp David in 2000, and author of the new book,
"The Truth About Camp David: The Untold Story About
the Collapse of the Middle East Peace process" (Nation
Books).
The
middle of the show:
- Michael Scheuer, author of "Imperial Hubris:
Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror" (Brassey's,
Inc.). Michael is a 22-year CIA veteran. He served as
the Chief of the Bin Laden Unit at the Counterterrorist
Center from 1996-1999. He resigned from the CIA earlier
this year.
The
rest of the show:
- Columbia University History professor Richard Bulliet,
author of the book, "The Case for Islamo-Christian
Civilization" (Columbia
University Press).
20 november 2004
That
morning's complete broadcast:
- Joseph Cirincione (http://proliferationnews.org),
senior associate and director for nonproliferation at the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the author
of "Deadly Arsenals: Tracking Weapons of Mass Destruction"
(Carnegie Endowment, 2002). Mr. Cirincione organizes and
chairs the annual Carnegie International Non-Proliferation
Conference, considered the premier event in the field. For
nine years, Joseph worked in Congress on the professional
staff of the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee
on Government Operations. In May, the National Journal listed
Cirincione as one of the hundred people whose ideas will
shape the debates over the "ten most important issues
of the day." Also, this year the World Affairs Councils
of America named him one of five hundred people whose views
have the most influence in shaping American foreign policy.
He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations
and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
As one of the world's leading experts on diplomacy and weapons
of mass destruction, Joe told us about the recent developments
in the State Department, CIA, and the Iranian and Russian
nuclear weapons programs.
13 november 2004
That
morning's complete broadcast
- Matt Zimmerman, the staff attorney at the Electronic
Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org).
Matt told us about the shortcomings of our voting system
and what can be done to assure Americans that the vote is
accurate.
- Live from Baghdad, Dahr Jamail (http://dahrjamailiraq.com/)
Baghdad correspondent for the Internet journal The NewStandard.
Dahr was in Fallujah during the first US Marine siege of
that city last Spring. This time, Dahr explained the real
situation on the ground in Iraq and why a US military victory
in the current 'Battle for Fallujah' doesn't mean an end
to the war, a democratic election in January or a victory
for the Allawi government.
6 november 2004
That
morning's complete broadcast
- Toronto Sun columnist Eric Margolis (http://www.foreigncorrespondent.com)
who gave us an outsider's perspective on the US presidential
election
- Andy Bruce, an election analyst with the Organization
for Security and Cooperation in Europe's Office for Democratic
Institutions and Human Rights (http://www.osce.org/odihr/)
who was in the States with a team observing the elections.
Election Night Special, 2 november 2004
That
night's complete broadcast:
- Glen Ford, publisher of The Black Commentator (http://www.blackcommentator.com),
filled us in on what was happening with the African American
vote
- Rick Ridder, the political consultant behind Colorado's
Amendment 36 which challenged the Electoral College, told
us what's wrong with the Electoral College
- author and writer for The Nation (http://www.thenation.com)
and Madison's Capitol Times John Nichols gave us a live
report from Wisconsin
- author and BBC correspondent Greg Palast (http://www.gregpalast.com)
who broke every major story on the suspect nature of Florida's
2000 presidential vote, gave us the skinny on this year's
hincty voting.
30 october 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Sidney Blumenthal, the former assistant and senior advisor
to President Clinton. Sidney is currently writing a column
for Salon.com and the
Guardian and he has written for New Yorker magazine,
The Washington Post, New Republic and Vanity Fair. He is
also the author of "The Clinton Wars."
- Jason Reich, a writer on The Daily Show who worked on
"America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to American
Inaction" (TimeWarner)
23 october 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- economist James K. Galbraith, chair of Economists Allied
For Arms Reduction (http://www.ecaar.org).
James is an author and currently writes for Salon.com, The
Nation, The American Prospect, and The Progressive. James
is also a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public
Affairs and at the Department of Government, University
of Texas at Austin.
16 october 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Nick Arons talked about his new book, "Waiting for Rain:
The Politics and Poetry of Drought in Northeast Brazil"
(University
of Arizona Press). Nick has worked as a writer for international
policy think tanks, at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees,
at public defender legal offices, for civil liberties organizations,
and as a nonviolence educator. Nick is the recipient of
a Fulbright Fellowship to research the culture of drought
in Brazil and is currently a Robert McKay Scholar, a Hays
Fellow and an Institute for International Law and Justice
Fellow at New York University School of Law.
Nick will be in Chicago on Thursday, October 28th to discuss
the book at Healing Earth Resources and Books, 3111 North
Ashland, at 7:30 PM. For more information on this event,
call 773-327-8459.
The
middle of the show:
- live from the Netherlands, we spoke with Gabriel Kolko,
a historian of modern warfare and the author of twelve books
including "Century of War: Politics, Conflicts and
Society Since 1914," "Another Century of War?"
and the widely praised history of Vietnam, "Anatomy
of a War." Gabriel has spent thirty years working in
Vietnam and was in South Vietnam when the war ended. We'll
discuss the upcoming election, global alliances and US foreign
policy. You can read Gabriel's piece that appeared in Counterpunch
back in March, "The US Must be Isolated and Constrained:
The Coming Elections and the Future of American Global Power,"
by visiting http://www.counterpunch.org/kolko03122004.html
The
rest of the show:
9 october 2004
That
day's complete broadcast
2 october 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
The
middle of the show:
- author Michael Klare will discuss his new book "Blood
and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing
Dependence on Imported Petroleum" (Henry
Holt). You can also find out more by visiting http://www.americanempireproject.com
The
rest of the show:
- Anthony Lappe and Stephen Marshall of the Guerilla News
Network (http://www.guerrillanews.com/)
whose new book on the mainstream media is entitled "True
Lies" (Plume).
- Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves (http://www.freetheslaves.net),
discussed his group's new report, "Hidden Slaves: Forced
Labor in the US."
25 september 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Mel Goodman is a former CIA senior analyst and division
manager and currently is a senior fellow at the Center for
International Policy (http://www.ciponline.org/).
Mel was one of twenty-five national security experts, including
past guests Sibel Edmonds, Ray McGovern and David MacMichael,
who signed a joint letter citing how the 9/11 Commission
fell short in its investigation.
The
middle of the show:
- John Miller is the media and outreach coordinator at the
East Timor Action Network (http://www.etan.org).
John returned to This is Hell to discuss the recent contested
but landslide election of former Lieutenant General Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono over President Megawati Soekarnoputri.
In light of human rights offenses and a lack of military
reform ETAN is urging "the Bush administration to abandon
its misguided plans to expand assistance to the Indonesian
military." There have also been allegations that US
Attorney General John Ashcroft suppressed evidence that
tied the 2002 assassination of two Americans to the Indonesian
military.
The
rest of the show:
- Dr. Georgi Derluguian, assistant professor of sociology
and the director of the Center for International and Comparative
Studies at Northwestern University returned to This is Hell
to get us caught up on the ongoing troubles in Chechnya.
Georgi received his PhD from the Soviet Academy of Sciences
and SUNY-Binghamton. Professor Derluguian has held positions
at the US Institute of Peace, the Peace Studies Center at
Cornell and the University of Michigan.
- John Nichols is a columnist for The Nation and author
of the new book on vice president Dick Cheney, "Dick:
The Man Who is President" (New
Press).
18 september 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Matthew Brzezinski, author of the new book "Fortress America:
On the Frontlines of Homeland Security - an Inside Look
at the Coming Surveillance State" (Bantam).
Go read an excerpt from this book that's published in Mother
Jones under the title, "Red Alert: how Homeland Security
fell victim to Bush's obsession with Iraq" (http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/09/08_400.html).
The
middle of the show:
- Mordechai Vanunu (http://www.vanunu.freeserve.co.uk/)
who, in 1986, revealed to the Times of London that Israel
was making nuclear weapons at their Dimona nuclear facility.
For these revelations, Mordechai was arrested, imprisoned
and served an eighteen-year prison sentence, most of which
was in solitary confinement. He was released from prison
this past April.
The
rest of the show:
- Rob Sarra, a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War (http://www.ivaw.net/),
and a former US Marine infantry sergeant in the ongoing
war in Iraq, gave us his frontline perspective on where
the war went wrong.
11 september 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Philip Smucker, the journalist who broke the story of
Osama bin Laden's escape from Afghanistan in December 2001.
His new book is entitled, "Al Qaeda's Great Escape:
the Military and the Media on Terror's Trail. (Brassey's).
28 august 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Eric Miller, the executive director of the Project on
Government Oversight (http://www.pogo.org),
returned to This is Hell to talk about the acceleration
of government secrecy under the Bush administration, nuclear
power plant and weapons security, and contractor accountability.
The
middle of the show:
- Cheri Honkala of the Kensingto Workers Rights Union and
the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (http://www.kwru.org)
talked aobut her fight against homelessness and her group's
unpermitted march taking place the follwing day which was
the opening day of protest at the RNC in NYC. This was Cheri's
third time on This is Hell including appearances during
protests at the 2000 RNC in Philadelphia and the 2002 Winter
Olympics in Salt Lake City.
- author Naomi Klein (http://www.nologo.org)
to discuss her recent Harper's piece, "Baghdad Year
Zero," her Nation story, "Bring Najaf to New York"
(http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040913&s=klein)
and the protests this coming week.
This was Naomi's second appearance on This is Hell.
The
rest of the show:
21 august 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
The
middle of the show:
- live from Caracas, independent journalist and former Fulbright
scholar Greg Wilpert (http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/)
returned to This is Hell to fill us in on what happened
in the previous Sunday's referendum on the presidency of
Hugo Chavez and what that result spells for the future of
Venezuela.
- executive editor of MediaChannel.org Danny Schechter (http://www.mediachannel.org)
and executive producer of Globalvision (http://www.globalvision.org/)
returned to This is Hell to discuss his new documentary,
"WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception" (http://www.wmdthefilm.com/mambo/index.php).
Danny won the Society of Professional Journalists' 2001
Award for Excellence in Documentary journalism and is a
former producer at CNN and ABC News 20/20 where he won two
Emmys. Danny is also the author of the book, Embedded: How
the Media Failed to Cover the War on Iraq" (Prometheus).
The
rest of the show:
- Peace activist and Jesuit priest, the Reverend John Dear
(http://www.fatherjohndear.org/)
joined us to discuss his amazing and felonious life of protest
including his recent work to shut down the Los Alamos National
Laboratory
- The Yes Men (http://theyesmen.org/)
talked with us about their new book, "The Yes Men:
The True Story of the End of the World Trade organization"
(Disinformation) in which they explain how they impersonated
WTO supporters at ministerial meetings and lectured some
of the world's leading businessmen on trade.
14 august 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- David Swanson, media coordinator at the International
Labor Communications Association (http://ILCAonline.org),
discussed his 'Media Blackout' series and the role of labor
in the antiwar movement and this year's presidential campaign.
The
middle of the show:
- Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade
Watch (http://www.tradewatch.org)
and author of the new book, "Whose Trade Organization?:
A Comprehensive Guide to the WTO (The New Press),"
told us about last month's stealth WTO meeting in Geneva.
The
rest of the show:
- Keith Stroup, the founder and director of NORML (http://www.norml.org),
the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana laws,
got us up-to-date on the drug war.
- former CIA analyst David MacMichael, a member of the
steering group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for
Sanity, gave us his views on the future of the CIA and President
Bush's nomination of Congressman Porter Goss as the agency's
director
7 august 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
The
middle of the show:
- Louis Proyect, who spent most of the 1980s in the Central
American solidarity movement working with the Committee
in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, and Tecnica,
an organization that sent skilled professionals to Nicaragua,
told us about his recent article, "First the Contra
Butchers, Then the Sweatshops: Reflections on Nicaragua"
(http://www.counterpunch.org/proyect07272004.html)
The
rest of the show:
- Alexander Cockburn, author and head muckity muck at Counterpunch
- Stephen Zunes, author of Tinderbox: US Middle East Policy
and the Roots of Terrorism," returned to This is Hell
to talk with us about his recent work including his most
recent piece "Democratic Party Platform Shows Shift
to the Right on Foreign Policy" (http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2004/0408shift.html)
31 july 2004
That
day's complete broadcast
- Matthew Koehler of the National Forest Protection Alliance
(http://www.forestadvocate.org/)
told us about possibly one of the most controversial public
lands logging projects in US history.
The
middle of the show:
- Center for Public Integrity's (http://www.publicintegrity.org)
Meredith O'Brien told us about her reports, "It's Their
Party: DNC Demands Boost Cost of Convention, Paid for By
Special Interests," "The Party's Parties: Lavish
Parties Lead to Access at Nominating Convention" and
"Wining and Dining the DNC: When Cities Vie to Host
a Convention, It's the Party Insiders Who Win."
- Ian Williams, a contributor to The Nation, Salon.com,
Alternet and Foreign Policy in Focus on the UN and international
affairs. Ian discussed his latest essay, "The Morality of
Intervention" (http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/19388/)
The
rest of the show:
- the Democracy Center's (http://www.democracyctr.org/)
Jim Shultz returned to This is Hell and reported to us live
from Cochabamba, Bolivia on 'The Curse of the Wealth Under
the Ground'
24 july 2004
That
day's complete broadcast
The
middle of the show:
The
rest of the show:
17 july 2004
That
day's complete broadcast
The
middle of the show:
- Norman Kelley, author of "The Head Negro in Charge
Syndrome: The Dead End of Black Politics"
- 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award winner Rebecca
Solnit who will discuss her new book, "Hope in the
Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities"
Both of the above two books are being published by Nation
Books (http://www.nationbooks.com)
The
rest of the show:
- Jennifer Abbott, one of the filmmakers who created the
new documentary "The Corporation" (http://www.thecorporation.com)
which features plenty of past guests from This is Hell.
- Arjun Makhijani, president of the Institute for Energy
and Environmental Research (http://ieer.org/)
will discuss nuclear weapons nonproliferation
10 july 2004
That
day's complete broadcast
- Larry Tye, author of "Rising From The Rails:
Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class"
(http://www.henryholt.com).
The
middle of the show:
- Ellen Frank, author of "The Raw Deal: How
Myths and Misinformation About the Deficit, Inflation, and
Wealth Impoverish America" (http://www.beacon.org)
The
rest of the show:
- FBI translator Sibel Edmonds returned to This is
Hell only days after having her suit against her dismissal
from the bureau denied by a US District Court judge. Sibel,
you may remember, sifted through intercepts related to the
9/11 terrorist plot, finding references to skyscrapers.
The intercepts had been ignored because they were badly
translated. Sibel also insists that one of her colleagues
was an admitted member of an organization that was under
investigation for ties to the Middle East that was being
investigated by the FBI. When she went public with this
information, she was terminated from her position.
- James Petras is an adviser to the landless and
jobless in Brazil and Argentina and is co-author of Globalization
Unmasked (http://zedbooks.co.uk/).
He is also the author of today's top Counterpunch story,
"The Venezuelan Referendum: The Truth About Jimmy Carter"
(http://www.counterpunch.org)
3 july 2004
That
day's complete broadcast
The
middle of the show:
- Mark Schmitt, Director of Policy and Research at
the Open Society Institute (http://www.soros.org/)
which is part of the Soros Fondation Netowrk. Mark has been
analyzing US liberalism in the American Prospect. His most
recent Prospect article on the subject is called 'Kids Aren't
Us." You can find all of Mark's work at his blog called
'The Decembrist' at http://markschmitt.typepad.com/decembrist/
The
rest of the show:
- Ali Ali-Dinar, president elect of the Sudan Studies
Association and outreach director of the African Studies
Program at the University of Pennsylvania, told us about
the horrible situation in Sudan. Ali is not only a native
of the troubled Darfur region, but he is also founder of
the Darfur Information Center (http://www.darfurinfo.org/)
- live in the studio, we were honored to have the very first
interview with Voices in the Wilderness (http://www.vitw.org)
co-coordinator Kathy Kelly since being released from
the Women's Detention Center in Pekin, Illinois for charges
resulting from her protest at the School of the Americas
last November.
26 june 2004
That
day's complete broadcast
- Jonathan Steele, the senior foreign correspondent
for The Guardian, reported to us live from Baghdad. You
can find his daily dispatches at http://www.selvesandothers.org/.
Jonathan is not affiliated with that site, it's just a place
we found that keeps a regular set of links to his work.
Unfortunately, Jonathan's cell phone fails three times.
- Bill Quigley, lawyer for Voices in the Wilderness
(http://www.vitw.org)
and Loyola Law Professor in New Orleans. Bill talked about
the government's case against Voices fro circumventing sanctions,
Kathy Kelly's arrest at the School of the Americas protests,
and the crack down on dissent at the FTAA protests in Miami
and the G8 Summit in Georgia.
The
middle of the show:
- Richard Heinberg, author of "The Party's Over:
Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies" (http://www.museletter.com/).
- Ambassador H. Allen Holmes who was one of "the
unprecedented bipartisan coalition of twenty-seven career
chiefs of mission and retired four-star military leaders
who launched a nationwide campaign to press for the need
for change in US foreign and defense policy because they
are deeply concerned by the damage the Bush Administration
has caused to our national and international interests."
Ambassador Holmes was Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Special Operations during the Clinton administration, Ambassador
at Large for Burdensharing during the first Bush administration,
and Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs
and Ambassador to Portugal during the Reagan administration.
Read more about Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change
at http://www.diplomatsforchange.com/
The
rest of the show:
- Bev Harris, executive director of Black Box Voting
(http://www.BlackBoxVoting.org),
a nonpartisan consumer protection organization for elections.
19 june 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Barbara Rossing, author of "The Rapture Exposed"
(http://www.westviewpress.com).
Barbara, according to the dust jacket, "teaches New
Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
She holds a doctorate from the Harvard University Divinity
School and a Masters of Divinity degree from Yale University
Divinity School and is an ordained minister in the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America, she lives in Chicago."
The
middle of the show:
- Dante Chinni, senior associate at the Project for Excellence
in Journalism (http://www.journalism.org)
talked with us about the Project's 'State of the Media 2004'
report.
The
rest of the show:
- Gaby Lasky, legal advisor to the Public Committee Against
Torture in Israel (http://www.stoptorture.org.il/)
- Managua, Nicaragua based writer and activist Toni Solo
returns to This is Hell. Toni has been in Nicaragua since
the Sandanista era and gave us his perspective on the Reagan
legacy. He also told us how the Bush administration may
be gearing up for their own little Contra war in Venezuela.
Toni's most recent work, "Venezuela 2004: Nicaragua's
Contra War Revisited," can be found at http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=45&ItemID=5647
12 june 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
The
middle of the show:
- Barbara Olshansky of the Center for Constitutional Rights
(http://ccr-ny.org/v2/home.asp)
told us about both the internal Pentagon memo her group
obtained outlining a framework for the use of torture, as
well as the lawsuit they filed against private contractors
for torture conspiracy.
The
rest of the show:
- University of Michigan professor Juan Cole who writes
the blog, "Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East,
History, and Religion" (http://www.juancole.com/).
Juan returns to This is Hell to discuss his recent work
including his TomPaine.com piece, "The Resolutionary War."
5 june 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Jim Naureckas, editor of the Fairness and Accuracy
in Reporting (http://www.fair.org)
publication 'Extra,' returned to This is Hell to talk National
Public Radio, the New York Times and oh, so much more.
The
middle of the show:
The
rest of the show:
- Amit Pandya, a development consultant who has served
in the State and Defense departments, USAID and on the staff
of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, discussed his Alternet.org
piece, "Electoral Shock," (http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18756)
on the recent elections in India.
- yet another writer returned to This is Hell this week.
Jonathan Schell, author of the new book "A Hole
in the World: an Unfolding Story of War, Protest, and the
New American Order" (Nation
Books)
22 may 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Reed Brody, special consul to Human Rights Watch
(http://www.hrw.org),
returned to our show to talk human rights - and wrongs.
The
middle of the show:
The
rest of the show:
- Maher Nasser, a representative of the United Nations
Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (http://www.unrwa.org)
talked about this week's events in Gaza
- and Charles Knight, co-director Project on Defense
Alternatives at the Commonwealth Institute (http://www.comw.org/pda/)
and told us us about his two most recent articles, "Outsourcing
Torture and the Problems of 'Quality Control'," and "The
New Occupation: How Preventive War is Wrecking the Military."
15 may 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Tom Barry is policy director of the Interhemispheric
Resource Center (http://www.irc-online.org), will tell us
about 'Right Web: the Architecture of Power That's Changing
Our World" (http://rightweb.irc-online.org/index.php).
Right Web "explores the many ties that link the right-wing
movement's main players, organizations, corporate supporters,
educational institutions, and government representatives
to each other in a new architecture of power."
The
middle of the show:
- linguist George Lakoff (http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org)
told us how we can free the issues away currently being
held hostage by right-wing doublespeak - and think.
The
rest of the show:
8 may 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Morton Sklar, Executive Director World Organization
for Human Rights USA (http://woatusa.org)
- formerly the World Organization Against Torture USA
- the Natural Resources Defense Council's Christopher
Paine who will told about his new report on the increase
in nuclear weapons production entitled, "Weaponeers of Waste:
a Critical Look at the Bush Administration Energy Department's
Nuclear Weapons Complex and the First Decade of Science-Based
Stockpile Stewardship" (http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/weaponeers/weaponeers.pdf).
The
middle of the show:
- Eric Leenson, founder of the Friends of the MST,
the Landless Workers Movement of Brazil, (http://www.mstbrazil.org/)
got us up-to-date on what's happening in Brazil.
The
rest of the show:
- Dahr Jamail (http://blog.newstandardnews.net/iraqdispatches/),
Baghdad correspondent for the Internet journal The NewStandard,
Jamail was in Fallujah last month and reported to us live
from Baghdad.
- Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Executive Director of Rabbis
For Human Rights (http://www.rhr.israel.net/)
who was allegedly, forcibly, used as a 'human shield' to
protect Israeli Defense Force vehicles within the Occupied
Territories.
1 may 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Scott C. Davis (http://www.DialogueSyria.org),
author of "The Road from Damascus: A Journey Through
Syria." Scott had just returned from Syria and gave us his
impressions of the people, the culture and the polticis
of Syra.
The
middle of the show:
- Greg Palast (http://www.gregpalast.com),
author of "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" (Plume)
which has just been re-mixed as an 'Expanded Election Edition.'
Greg's new edition expands on the vetting of African-American
votes nationwide, the Iraq war, the freaks at Justice and
corporate influence.
The
rest of the show:
- Jeff Jarvis (http://www.buzzmachine.com/)
has just written the cover story for the May 17th issue
of The Nation entitled "F*cked By the FCC" (http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040517&s=jarvis)
on America's latest censorship craze. Jeff is the former
TV critic for TV Guide and People, creator of Entertainment
Weekly, Sunday Editor of the New York Daily News, and a
columnist on the San Francisco Examiner ... yet he still
wanted to come on our show ...
24 april 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Susan Jacoby, author of "Freethinkers: a History
of American Secularism" (Henry
Holt).
The
rest of the show:
- on this weekend of the 'March for Women's Lives' in DC,
we spke with Jennifer Baumgardner, co-author of "Manifesta:
Young Women, Feminism, and the Future" (http://www.manifesta.net/)
17 april 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- live from the Occupied Territories, Mustafa Barghouthi,
M.D., President of the Palestinian National Initiative (http://www.almubadara.org/en/),
a democratic opposition movement working for a nonviolent
resolution to the troubles in Israel and Palestine.
- Sibel Edmonds, an FBI translator in their language
division, who says pre-9/11 documents weren't translated
because the division was riddled with incompetence.
The
middle of the show:
- Iowa farmer George Naylor. president of the National
Family Farm Coalition (http://www.nffc.net)
which was recognizing the International Day of Farmers'
Struggle
The
rest of the show:
- from a payphone somewhere in Quebec, writer Tom Reeves
who just returned from Haiti earlier this month. Reeves
was also in Haiti shortly after the coup that overthrew
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in the early '90s. Tom's
most recent article is entitled "Return to Haiti: The
American Learning Zone" (http://www.counterpunch.com/reeves04142004.html).
- live from Tel Aviv, Rayna Moss, an activist with
the Israeli Committee for Mordechai Vanunu and for a Middle
East Free of Atomic, Biological and Chemical Weapons (http://www.vanunu.freeserve.co.uk/).
Vanunu was a technician at Dimona, Israel's nuclear installation
when he discovered that the plant was producing nuclear
weapons. He then gave his evidence to the press. The evidence
showed that Israel had stockpiled up to two hundred nuclear
warheads. Because of his story, Vanunu was sentenced to
eighteen years in prison for 'treason' and 'espionage.'
Vanunu was freed from prison this past Wednesday, Check
out our Updates for his speech upon release.
10 april 2004
That
day's complete broadcast
The
rest of the show:
- Bill Christison returned to This is Hell. Bill
joined the CIA in 1950 and worked on the analysis side of
the Agency for over 28 years. In the 1970s he served as
a National Intelligence Officer for for Southeast Asia,
South Asia, and Africa, which is a principal adviser of
the Director of Central Intelligence. Before his retirement
in 1979, he was Director of the CIA's Office of Regional
and Political Analysis, a 250-person unit. Bill's most recent
article is entitled "9/11 Commission is Bush's New Lapdog:
It Refuses to Even Question US Policies that Encourage Terrorism."
(http://www.counterpunch.com/christison04092004.html).
- fired WKZO radio host Kevin Vandenbroek who broke
the story of the 'bribery' scandal encircling Republican
US Congressman Nick Smith of Michigan. You can listen to
that interview by clicking
here.
27 march 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Minor Sinclair, regional director of the US Program
at Oxfam America (http://www.oxfamamerica.org/)
discussed OxfamAmerica's new repot, "Like Machines,
Nearly Two Million US Farmworkers Labor Without Rights."
The
middle of the show:
- Saul Landau, fellow of the Institute for Policy
Studies and author of "Preemptive Empire: a Guide to
Bush's Kingdom."
Saul also has a new film entitled "Syria: Between Iraq
and a Hard Place, now available from the Cinema Guild (http://www.cinemaguild.com).
In the previous week, Saul had written two pieces for Counterpunch
(http://www.counterpunch.org)
called, "Hysteria Mounts: Is Venezuela Next?"
and "The Plot Against Syria: An Irresponsible Accountability
Act"
The
rest of the show:
- Mark Engler, a New York City commentator for Foreign
Policy in Focus and for the Global Beat Syndicate. Mark's
work appears at DemocracyUprising. His most recent piece
was called, "The Peace Movement One Year Later"
(http://democracyuprising.com/articles/2004/M20peace_long.php).
- three-time Nobel Peace prize nominated Kathy Kelly
of Voices in the Wilderness (http://www.vitw.org).
Kathy spoke to us two weeks before she began to serve time
at the Women's Federal Prison Camp in Pekin, Illinois for
her civil disobedience during this year's School of the
Americas protest at Fort Benning, Georgia.
20 march 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Sahar Saba, a representative of RAWA, Revolutionary
Association of the Women of Afghanistan (http://www.rawa.org),
the oldest political and social women's organization in
Afghanistan. Long before 9-11, these women were fighting
for their rights in Afghanistan against the Taliban regime.
During this campaign, documentary footage was released of
RAWA members protesting in Pakistan and being stoned by
Taliban supporters while police stood by.
The
middle of the show:
- Elizabeth Seay, author of the book, "Searching
for Lost City: On the Trail of America's Native Languages"
(Lyons Press)
- Jeremy Bigwood (http://jeremybigwood.net/),
the freelance journalist who obtained documents under the
US Freedom of Information Act revealing that, in 2002, the
National Endowment for Democracy, a not-for-profit agency
financed entirely by the US Congress, gave hundreds of thousands
of dollars to fund the political opponents of Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez, including those that were allegedly
involved in the failed coup. Earlier this week, Jeremy was
quoted as saying, "this repeats a pattern started in
Nicaragua in the election of 1990 when (the US) spent $20
per voter to get rid of (the Sandinista President Daniel)
Ortega. It's done in the name of democracy but it's rather
hypocritical. Venezuela does have a democratically elected
President who won the popular vote which is not the case
with the US"
The
rest of the show:
- Aryo Pirouznia, a representative of the Student
Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran (http://www.daneshjoo.org/).
We finally find an Iranian to address the Iranian student's
struggle and all he can talk about is the miracle that is
President Bush. Of course, he is allowed his opinion, and
we cherish diverse, unheard opinions on our show, but next
time we hope to find someone whose group is not based in
Texas and Israel.
- and live from from her home in Cordoba, Spain, we spoke
with Carola Reinjtes, director of international affairs
for the Spanish Network of Solidarity Economy and the Spanish
non-governmental organization IDEAS. When 'interested parties'
were not interfering with the phone call, Carola gave us
a perspective on this past fortnight's bombings and election
in Spain that is being drowned out by right-wing propagandists
in the States.
13 march 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Karen Kwiatkowski, a retired US Air Force Lieutenant
colonel who worked in the Pentagon from May 2002 through
February 2003 in the office of the Under Secretary of Defense
for Policy, Near East South Asia and Special Plans. Karen
is the author of the controversial Salon.com piece, "The
new Pentagon papers" (http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/03/10/osp/index.html)
The
middle of the show:
- Julie Mertus, a professor of human rights at American
University's School of International Service, author of
"Bait and Switch: Human Rights and US Foreign Policy"
(http://www.fpif.org/papers/2004rights.html)
and the 1999 book, "Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started
a War"
The
rest of the show:
- candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for President
of the United States, Congressman Dennis Kucinich
of Ohio. The official website for his campaign in Llinois
is http://www.il4kucinich.org
- Ian Thompson of the National Committee to "Free
the Five" (http://www.freethefive.org/)
an organization working to free the five Cubans who were
surveilling Cuban right-wingers in Florida, and have been
imprisoned for espionage.
6 march 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Harold Meyerson, editor-at-large of The American
Prospect (http://www.prospect.org).
Harold is also the political editor and columnist for the
LA Weekly, the nation's largest metropolitan weekly. Harold
talked with us about his latest work, and wrap up on the
Wal-Mart/UFCW settlement
- Melanie Sloan, executive director Citizens for
Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (http://www.citizensforethics.org),
filled us in on all of her organization's legal attempts
to force the government to behave ethically. Melanie explained
the alleged bribery of a congressman, the so-called 'hackergate'
scandal, and campaign finance scams of all kinds.
The
middle of the show:
- Uri Avnery (http://www.avnery-news.co.il/english/),
a former member of the Israeli Knisset, Uri is a founding
member of the Israeli peace group Gush Shalom (http://www.gush-shalom.org/english/),
which has been featured on This is Hell in the past. Uri,
an admitted former terrorist when he fought for Israeli
independence, former member of the Knisset, and founding
member of one of the largest peace group's In Israel, gave
us his unique perspective on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
The
rest of the show:
- Larry Everest (http://www.larryeverest.com),
author of "Oil, Power and Empire: Iraq and the
US Global Agenda" (Common
Courage). This book has received critical acclaim from
past This is Hell guests Dan Ellsberg and Michael Klare.
28 february 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Yifat Susskind, associate director with MADRE (http://www.madre.org/),
an international women's human rights organization demanding
human rights for women and families. Yifat discussed her
backgrounder on Haiti called "Insurrection in the Making"
- Andrew Fandino of Peace Brigades International
(http://www.peacebrigades.org/).
Later that afternoon, Andrew addressed a forum on Colombia
at which the keynote speakers were Astrid Manrique and Yolima
Quintero from the Colombian group ASFADDES. ASFADDES is
an association of family members of disappeared detainees
in Colomiba (http://www.asfaddes.org.co/).
The
middle of the show:
- Scott Ritter, the former chief UN weapons inspector
in Iraq whose interview with us last year was selected as
the 'Best of 2003.' In that interview, Scott accurately
predicted the looming shortfalls in the search for weapons
of mass destruction in Iraq, as well as the difficulties
occupation forces would have in that country.
- Danny Schechter, author of the new book "Embedded:
Weapons of Mass Deception" which tells how the
media failed to cover the war on Iraq. Danny is executive
director of MediaChannel (http://www.mediachannel.org)
and cofounder and executive producer of Globalvision, a
New York-based television and film production company. Danny
was also a recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists'
2001 Award for Excellence in 'documentary journalism' and
is a former producer for CNN and for ABC News 20/20 where
he won two Emmys.
The
rest of the show:
- Dan Ellsberg is the former Defense and State Department
analyst who served during the Vietnam War and made headlines
around the world when he released the Pentagon Papers in
1971. The release of these papers showed how the US government
had misled the public about Vietnam. The release is credited
with ending the Vietnam War and laying the foundation for
Watergate and the eventual resignation of President Nixon.
21 february 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Greg Palast (http://www.gregpalast.com)
author of "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy".
Greg has also just released a new CD entitled "Weapon
of Mass Instruction - Greg Palast Live and Uncensored".
Greg will be celebrating the release of the CD on Friday,
February 27th, at 8:30 PM at New York's CBGB's which is
located on Bleecker at Bowery.
The
middle of the show:
- Noam Chomsky ... okay, so you know who he is. Noam's
got a new book out called "Hegemony or Survival:
America's Quest for Global Dominance". We understand
the movie will star Owen Wilson. You can find his ZNet archive
at http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/index.cfm
The
rest of the show:
- Tim Kerr, executive director of Media for Democracy
(http://www.mediafordemocracy.us/mfd/homepage.html),
a collaborative project by the US affiliates of MediaChannel.org
(http://www.mediachannel.org).
Media for Democracy calls itself "a non-partisan citizens'
initiative to monitor mainstream news coverage of the 2004
elections and advocate fair, democratic and issue-oriented
standards of reporting. The project links voters with more
than 100 independent media reform groups in a targeted campaign
to prevent the types of media mistakes - such as early,
erroneous and politically biased projections - that plagued
the 2000 election."
- Glen Ford, co-publisher of The Black Commentator
(http://www.blackcommentator.org),
returns to discuss his new article "Remaking America
in Wal-Mart's Image: Grocery Strikers Fight for ALL of Us."
14 february 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Payal Sampat, International Campaign Director at
Mineral Policy Center (http://mineralpolicy.org/),
told us about her organization's 'dirty gold' campaign
and other resource issues. Payal "leads international
efforts to hold mining companies responsible to citizens
and communities, to raise awareness of mining issues through
consumer-targeted campaigns, to create incentives for responsible
materials practices, and to support local mining campaigns."
The
middle of the show:
The
rest of the show:
- Dr. Helen Caldicott, current president of the Nuclear
Policy Research Institute (http://www.nuclearpolicy.org/)
and the Founding President of Physicians for Social Responsibility,
the co-winner of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, was nominated
individually for the Nobel by Dr. Linus Pauling. Dr. Caldicott
is the author of the new book, "The New Nuclear Danger:
George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex" (New
Press).
7 february 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Pratap Chatterjee is program director at Corpwatch
(http://www.corpwatch.org),
where he has been reporting the hincty business of Halliburton
for quite some time. With every other reason for war evaporating,
it's time we check back in with the now numerous investigations
looking into Halliburton and Vice president Dick Cheney
The
middle of the show:
- Dilip Hiro, author of "Secrets and Lies: Operation
Iraqi Freedom and After" (Nation Books)
The
rest of the show:
- Norman Solomon, syndicated columnist on media and
politics and co-author of "Target Iraq: What the News
Media Didn't Tell You" (Context Books). His most recent
column is entitled, "The Deadly Lies of Reliable Sources
" (http://www.fair.org/media-beat/040205.html).
- Glen Rangwala, Lecturer in Politics at Cambridge
University, and the first writer to out the dodgy dossier
that ended up being the center of the Hutton Inquiry.
31 january 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Brian Klug, associate professor of philosophy at
Saint Xavier University, Chicago, and senior research fellow
in philosophy at St. Benet's Hall, Oxford. He is US consulting
editor of Patterns of Prejudice, published by the Institute
for Jewish Policy Research in London and discussed his recent
work that appeared in The Nation entitled, "The
Myth of the New Anti-Semitism" (http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20040202&s=klug).
The
middle of the show:
The
rest of the show:
24 january 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Economist Dean Baker, co-director of the Center
for Economic and Policy Research (http://www.cepr.net),
returns to This is Hell this Saturday. Dean writes the Economic
Reporting Review, a weekly examination of the economic reporting
in the New York Times and the Washington Post, and periodic
analyses of the US Federal Government's economic data. Dean
is also co-author, with Mark Weisbrot, of the controversial
"Social Security: The Phony Crisis" (University
of Chicago), as well as "Getting Prices Right: The
Battle Over the Consumer Price Index" (M.E. Sharpe),
and "Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy"
(Cambridge University).
Dean's Center for Economic and Policy Research is currently
offering a thousand bucks to the person who can answer
this simple question: "Why Is the Run-up in Housing
Prices Not a Bubble?" (http://www.cepr.net/cepr_fact_check_lotto.htm).
The
middle of the show:
- Mike Lundberg, assistant campaigner with Global
Witness' (http://www.globalwitness.org)
Liberia Campaign told us all about 'conflict timber.' Remember
when the mainstream media changed 'blood diamonds' to 'conflict
diamonds'? Apparently, there' blood on the hands of timber
merchants in Africa as well.
The
rest of the show:
- Chris Toensing is executive director of the Middle
East Research and Information Project (http://www.merip.org/)
and editor of Middle East Report. Last week, Chris reacted
to President Bush's State of the Union address by saying
the speech "revealed the continuing grip of neo-conservative
ideology over George W. Bush's Middle East policy. Bush
claimed success for the doctrine of preemption from Iraq
to Libya. He tacitly equated the war in Iraq with the war
on terrorism four times. He vowed to press on with a 'forward
strategy of freedom' until the Middle East is democratized.
Most revealingly, he did not even mention the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict."
- Tony Juniper, vice-chair of Friends of the Earth
International (http://www.foei.org/)
gave us an environmentalist's perspective on the World Economic
Forum live from the protests of the WEF in Davos, Switzerland.
17 january 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Mother Jones writer Michael Scherer, who'll tell
us about his special report "The Soul of the New Machine"
(http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/01/12_402.html),
about Grover Norquist, the influential president of Americans
for Tax Reform. Michael attended one of Norquist's invitation-only
weekly meetings of conservative DC power brokers.
We also touched on Michael's recent work on Mad Cow, too.
The
middle of the show:
- Chuck Lewis, the founder and executive director
of the Center for Public Integrity (http://www.publicintegrity.org/),
and author of the new book, "The Buying of the President
2004: Who's really Bankrolling Bush and His Democratic Challengers
- and What They Expect in Return" (Perennial).
Chuck was an investigative reporter for eleven years at
ABC and CBS News. He was also a producer at '60 Minutes.'
The
rest of the show:
- Ed Hammond, is Director of the US Office of the
Sunshine Project (http://www.sunshine-project.org/),
a biological warfare watchdog group.
- we got a live report from the World Social Forum (http://www.wsfindia.org)
in Mumbai, India with Soren Ambrose, an activist
with the 50 Years Is Enough Network (http://50years.org/),
a US-based coalition of over 200 organizations committed
to the fundamental transformation of the IMF and World Bank.
Soren will also be one of the speakers in Chicago's World
Social Forum coming up on Saturday, January 31st and listed
in our new Events section.
10 january 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
- Kathy Kelly, co-director of Chicago's Voices in
the Wilderness (http://www.vitw.org.
We tried to hook up with Kathy the pervious Saturday, but
she was in the midst of negotiations to meet with prisoners
at Iraq's notrious Umm Qasr prison. Kathy has now returned
form Iraq and has graciously agreed to return to our show
this weekend.
The
middle of the show:
- Howard Lyman, author of the book "Mad Cowboy:
Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat,"
(http://www.madcowboy.com).
You may remember that Howard was a guest on Oprah and he
and Ms. Winfrey were taken to court for the alleged crime
of "food disparagement" after raising questions
about the safety of beef in the United States.
The
rest of the show:
- International Solidarity Movement (http://www.palsolidarity.org)
activist Brian Avery, who says he was shot and wounded
by Israeli soldiers in Palestine.
- Jeffrey Smith, author of the new book "Seeds
of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about
the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating"
(http://www.seedsofdeception.com)
3 january 2004
That
day's complete broadcast:
The
middle of the show:
- Michael K. Smith, author of the new book "The
Madness of King George: the Ingenious Insanity of our Most
'Misunderestimated' President" (http://www.commoncouragepress.com)
The
rest of the show:
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